From: Austin Ziegler <austin@...>
Date: 2003-03-21T12:34:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Proposal: new operator: '<-' (for assignments)

On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:20:27 +0900, Phil Tomson wrote:
> Now of course, I could have allowed access to @val by declaring an
> attr_accessor, but in many cases I don't want to expose that
> information or make users of the class have to remember the name
> of the variable 'val'. It just seems much cleaner in many cases to
> have an assignment operator. Up till now I've been overriding '<<'
> to do this, but now I've run into a case where I'd like to pass on
> operators to the underlying value (@val in the example above)
> using method_missing so the underlying value can be shifted (and
> since '<<' is overriden, that's kind of tough).

Array, String, and Hash use #replace to do this.

-austin
-- Austin Ziegler, austin@halostatue.ca on 2003.03.20 at 22:29:11